Great explanation!

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If you have some time you could just use a screw driver

Thank you Sir for your video. It really helped to solve my problem! 🙏

I have the same problem, but the light is flashing and this experiment did not work What do you think is the reason?

You saved me! Thank you for this video 🙏🏾

I followed the steps, door closed nicely but when it began to open cable skipped off pulley again

After i made all the settings i wanna use my control but the light just blinked

Thank you

To save everyone the time i spent looking for this part. You can not buy it. they only sell the complete motor at almost the cost of a new opener. about $175.00 #37030A.S BUT it is discontinued.along with its replacement 36447A.S Also discontinued. Ive been searching the country for someone that might have an old one in stock just to prevent a complete reinstall of a new one. Alibaba has a replacement for $60.00 but you will wait months to get it and it probably will fail in a month.. Sorry for the bad news but this 15 yr old opener is also a throw away it seems. Unbelieveable that a $15 Nylon gear causes you to throw away a completely installed unit. This kind of stuff speaks volumes about the company!!!

Six years later and you are still helping Subaru owners, like me, work garage magic

Solved my problem. Thank you. You are a genius.

Thank you

Thank you SO MUCH for this video! Worked like a charm!

I wish you can do the remote programing too. Thank You

While I encourage safety... why TF would anyone stretch the spring that far... ever? Lol

When garage door up, is the right cable a bit looser than left side. Left/right When looking outside from inside your garage

If you find that when you wrap the cable, it is about 4" too short, and if you unwrap one turn of the cable, it is then about 8 inches too long, and you're starting to think about trying to adjust the spool, DON'T! When the door is at the top of it's run (as it is the way this guy had you lock it up with with vice grips), there is great adjustability in its position relative to the cable. Just take off the vice grips and move the door with your hand (I did this while the cable had been 4 inches too short) until the peg meets the end of the cable. Then attach it. This method of his works great! He really only forgot to mention this last point that I just added. (It would help to have a second person there when you do this, as I almost lost everything as the door started to come down too far..)

Hey, garage door genius you need to add springs to your garage door. If it rolls up in your door comes falling down it’s probably gonna be your fault because you didn’t add springs. Do you need to call a garage door expert? Where are you springs you need garage door springs Guys if you’re out there with no springs on a garage door or a torsion bar on it you need to go go get a new torsion bar or springs. Your springs are also gonna be intentions when you get them new because you need to do 30 quarter turns and then a quarter half turn on the last turn same one for the other one. I’m sorry 30 quarter turns? yes 30 or you could just call an expert thank you just trying to be me trying to give you facts and I hope you have a great rest your day. Thanks for liking this comment.

If both of your LED lights on the top, your motor are both red that means you need to reprogram and try again with the programming system. You also need to check your sensors. Those things can be hard to track but it’s really easy if a red light is blinking on the other side and a green light is solid on the other side and in that means that if you try to open or close the garage door it’ll go slightly down and it’ll come back up and it the light will start blinking if you have a LiftMaster, a chamberlain so if you have those type of openers those lights for blank, just me trying to help garage door expert

This definitely saved the day! By the way how do you know if you added too much tension? After doing this the door opens like before, but now it makes a cracking noise.

I had the same problem again and thanks to your video I repaired it again... God bless you🙏🏻🙏🏻

Weeeellll .. it's 2024 and I just had to replace both of them. One became too sensitive, would reverse at a foot down or just before the floor. No adjustment of spring tension would fix. The other ... well ... I broke. First I closed it on an open SUV lift gate. Twice. :-( The result was the cables wrapped on top of, not under, the cable guides. And fixing that blew an internal fuse. Replaced the fuse and just to sure, checked cable tension; it was a bit off between the two sides. Ok, let's fix that. Futzed with the tension screw, but forgot to *unlock* the torque bar. Bottom line: stripped the worm gear, it's only plastic after all. Result: now opener 2 is broken too. OK, after 20 years, it's time to replace them. Did that (Precision Garage Door) - excellent service but not cheap. Wayne-Dalton iDrives: RIP

Thank you so much

Wow thank you!!!

Came to your channel to find an answer about my genie intellicode opener which is also a screw drive. Last night I went to go close my wife's garage door, and the door slammed down extremely hard, and was about 6 inches from my head. Loud sound...and a nice breeze as it rushed past me. Pretty sure my soul left my body for a minute.

Hi, my wife just drove into the garage door, I got the same problem: cable off on both sides. Thank you for this excellent tutorial. I tried to fix it yesterday eveing without any success, will try it again with your manual. KR from Switzerland, Olivier

Mine did the same thing, tried your recommended fix, lubed the side rails, lubed the screw, checked the sensors and nothing. Just an FYI for anyone hitting a dead end…I finally took a rag wiped the screw track clean, scraped the old lube gunk and dirt inside the screw track with flat head screw driver wrapped with a rag (mine was black and thick), shot the track with fresh lube, lubed the panel hinges, and finally lubed up the springs (very dry) and like all I.T. trouble shooting, disconnected the power source and reconnected it. Presto, she opened!!!! The final adjustment was lowering the open force, and incriminating the force until it opened a few times. I honestly don’t know which step did it, but something got it working. Good luck people.

Mine is doing the opposite. It goes up part way and stops. The up force is maxed, the red indicator is not flashing (only when I cover it). The rails are lubed as well. What I did notice on the unit is that the green status light isn’t on only when it moves it flashes then stops flashing. Not really sure about that light. Advice is welcomed. 🤷🏽‍♂️

I've replaced the coupler and the carriage. But the rail is not rotating when the motor turns. I've made sure that the coupler is sitting properly.... Anyone know how I can troubleshoot?

A friend of mine was literally thrown across his garage when he was trying to diy and his garage door spring let go. He's a little guy, not that that matters much given the tension in the spring. The guy he called in after the fact told him he was lucky he wasn't seriously injured or killed.

Hey man, thanks for the help. Saved me a lot of time before calling an electrician to help or potentially breaking the garage door. Thanks!!

Thanks!

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Totally helped me out!!! I've been trying to fix my garage door for months without having to pay 300 bucks or so, the wire was coming off the spool on both sides, followed your instructions step by step, good to go, thanks bro!!!

To learn this trade for garage repair technician, what should be the best way you recommend? Should I get a job apprenticing another company in my town? Should I follow people like you and online professionals & then practice on my own? Thanks

Very helpful

Mine failed in the up position. So I’m confused on why it must be set to down position

Mine works, just can't find info to program the outside remote

What should the voltage be at the sensor? Thank you sir

Also if you can’t get the cable off of the door end ”like mine” You can get it off the drum end. It’s really easy and if you look closely at it you’ll be able to see how.

Both right and left steel cables unwound and came off the drums today, not sure why?? I rewound the cable around the left drum and reconnected it to the door but when I let go of it the cable just completely unwinds. Maybe I need to wind up the cable on one side and secure the drum and then move onto winding the cable on the other side??

Didn't work lmfao

Hi, It's Memorial Day 2024. My husband and I both veterans. Our garage door just got completely off track, and glass broke everything! Ok, interesting fact: Around this same time last year, I ran into the door because, being an OEF/OIF combat veteran, I was triggered by two unsettling occurrences involving family members. A year later, this weekend, same family members. Aside from the dynamics, Question: When I ran into the door last year a friend of ours, who has a garage door service came, got out most of the dents, and put a bracket/brace across it. Brace seems heavy. Yet it's worked fine over the past year. Do you think it falling down a year later has anything to do with the occurrence of running into it last year?

Thank you helped so much

What I’m a little confused about is, y did u go back into the garage and program it directly from the actual ceiling-mounted opener itself, if u got the Subi’s opener to pair from the handheld remote the 1st time? B/c at first I assumed you were just showing a different way but then I rewatched and heard u say “..next step…” On my old school Craftsman garage door opener it worked directly from the remote. And No… I’m not trying to imply Craftsman is better than your Chamberlain or anything like that.

holy shit this just saved my life!! thank you 😭😭😭

What if mine's off but the wires seem connected?

What if the door is down and crooked?

Awesome video. I'm about to go fix my door now.